When Faster-Harder-Smarter Is Not Enough: Six Steps for Achieving What You Want in a Rapid-Fire World

by Kathryn D. Cramer

Cramer shows how to turn stress into success by activating our inner creativity, intuition, imagination, innovative thinking, resilience, collaboration, and optimism to achieve a new kind of mastery of our lives.

277 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Kathy Cramer, Ph.D., is the founder and managing partner of The Cramer Institute in St. Louis, MO. For more than twenty years, she and her colleagues have pioneered the development of Asset-Based Thinking (ABT) approaches to coaching, consulting, and training, and inspiring individuals and organizations. Her signature programs, keynotes, books, and online and new media offerings have passionate followers among corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, schools, psychologists, coaches, and others who are dealing with change, transition, innovation, and success in today’s world.

Kathy is an accomplished speaker, trainer, executive consultant, and the author of six books, including, Change the Way You See Yourself Through Asset-Based Thinking (2008), the first title in the ABT series, Change the Way You See Everything Through Asset-Based Thinking (2006), and When Faster, Harder, Smarter Is Not Enough (2002). The newest release in the ABT series is Change the Way You See Everything for Teens (April 2009.)

Dr. Cramer has received wide media recognition in such outlets as The Oprah Winfrey Show,Personal Excellence, St. Louis Business Journal, Realtor magazine, TomPeters.com, Forbes.com, and other national and regional venues. She has produced two films on stress, one of which received an Emmy Award.